Right to Privacy — (from NYT) A Fordham professor gave his class an assignment: find out as much personal information about Justice Scalia as you can. The assignment arose out of a class discussion about Justice Scalia’s dimissal of internet privacy concerns at a conference. The class came up with a lot of information including his home address and telephone number. Scalia responded in typical fashion:
“It is not a rare phenomenon that what is legal may also be quite irresponsible. That appears in the First Amendment context all the time. What can be said often should not be said. Prof. Reidenberg’s exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any.”
One of my undergraduate professors wrote Scalia and Scalia responded that my professor should not “parade his ignorance uninvited.” It made me wonder if Scalia has these responses ready to go, or if he just comes up with a new one every time he is challenged.
Scalia and Right to Privacy: Fordham Class Mines for Justice’s Data
Right to Privacy — (from NYT) A Fordham professor gave his class an assignment: find out as much personal information about Justice Scalia as you can. The assignment arose out of a class discussion about Justice Scalia’s dimissal of internet privacy concerns at a conference. The class came up with a lot of information including his home address and telephone number. Scalia responded in typical fashion:
“It is not a rare phenomenon that what is legal may also be quite irresponsible. That appears in the First Amendment context all the time. What can be said often should not be said. Prof. Reidenberg’s exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any.”
One of my undergraduate professors wrote Scalia and Scalia responded that my professor should not “parade his ignorance uninvited.” It made me wonder if Scalia has these responses ready to go, or if he just comes up with a new one every time he is challenged.